fiction and lies are both works of creative art, and creation always reveals the creator.

Every criminal leaves psychic fingerprints. And he can't wear gloves to hide them.

That's the worst thing about money - the moment you have some you begin to suspect everyone of trying to take it away from you. And usually they are.

The experiences of the heartless are so limited. It is hate that is blind. Love may miss a flaw here and there, but hate misses beauty everywhere.

A critic is a person who rationalizes his likes and dislikes in such impressive language that the layman thinks he is reasoning instead of rationalizing.

To the Latin, cynicism and middle age are synonymous. Look at our politicians - they move through their careers from left to center to right, like the hands of a clock.

Nobody believes in ghosts, but everybody is afraid of them.

Everything you do in war is a crime in peace

At twenty your choices are almost unlimited. At fifty you're a prisoner of past decisions. At seventy you have no free will left at all.

Diamonds are the tears of the poor.

Money is an acquired taste. But, once acquired, it becomes an addiction.

There is a non-technical way to travel in time: Try to create religious generations in your country, then you will certainly travel back in time, into the old eras!

Motherhood, true motherhood, was what went on when no one else could see.

God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.

I never try to make a major fashion statement but I want to be the friend in a woman's closet. I make dresses that women get laid in.

I shall smile when wreaths of snow Blossom where the rose should grow.

The economy is so bad that bedbugs are now infesting sleeping bags and tents, because they can't afford to stay in hotels anymore.

It's Connecticut: being like the people around you is the whole point.

People who achieve their goals do so with passion, planning, persistence and purpose.

The good thing about a film, or at least the films I've been a part of, is, no matter what happens in the end, you do the premiere and everyone's excited. You don't remember the rough times.

I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.